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1 Volume 18, Issue 4, Pages 398-401 (October 2015)
MERS, SARS, and Ebola: The Role of Super-Spreaders in Infectious Disease  Gary Wong, Wenjun Liu, Yingxia Liu, Boping Zhou, Yuhai Bi, George F. Gao  Cell Host & Microbe  Volume 18, Issue 4, Pages (October 2015) DOI: /j.chom Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions

2 Figure 1 Dynamics and the Role of Super-Spreaders in MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV Transmission (A and B) Simplified diagrams of super-spreading events driving the 2015 MERS-CoV (A) and 2003 SARS-CoV (B) outbreaks. Super-spreaders are shown in red. (C) The effect of super-spreaders during infection with a generic pathogen. Most infected cases have limited transmission levels, but infection of super-spreaders can rapidly increase the number of cases in the absence of early intervention, resulting in a (prolonged) outbreak or epidemic. Cell Host & Microbe  , DOI: ( /j.chom ) Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions


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